Posted on 06/22/2005 9:55:59 AM PDT by ambrose
Mon 20 Jun 2005
'Happy Slap' Teenager Not to Face Charges
By Pat Hurst and Hugo Duncan, PA
A teenager who left a schoolgirl battered and unconscious in a “happy slap” attack will not face charges, it was revealed today.
The youngster attacked Becky Smith, 16, so friends could film the assault for fun on their mobile phones in a youth craze known as “happy slapping”.
But the police have decided Becky’s attacker should only receive a caution for the assault.
Becky was left with a black eye, bruises and cuts in a “sick” attack launched by a fellow school pupil in Blackley, Manchester.
She was jumped from behind by the youngster, also 16, knocked to the ground and spent two days in hospital.
A gang of five boys filmed the attack and the video clip was passed around school via mobile phones, and was shown to Becky’s brother Craig, 13.
The victim’s mother, Georgina Smith, 39, described the incident as “sickening” and said her daughter had been left terrified and did not want to go back to school because other pupils had watched the video of the attack.
Becky, who is taking her GCSEs at Plant Hill High School in Blackley, was attacked on May 9, and spent two days at North Manchester General Hospital before going home.
A spokeswoman for Greater Manchester Police said a 16-year-old girl was due to answer to bail tomorrow and it was “very likely” she would receive a caution over the incident.
The attack on Becky was the latest in a string of violent “happy slapping” incidents – including the alleged rape of an 11-year-old girl.
It involves children attacking other youngsters or random passers-by and recording the attacks on their mobiles.
Videos of the “slaps” are then exchanged between phones and posted on the Internet as a joke.
Last month, two 18-year-olds were jailed for six-and-half years each after setting fire to a stranger and filming the attack on a phone.
Victim Matthew Kitchen, 41, had fallen asleep in a bus shelter in Bury, Greater Manchester, when Benjamin Mortenson and David Smolinski set him alight. Mr Kitchen nearly died.
The video footage was shown at Bolton Crown Court, and features the pair shouting: “This is the funniest thing I have ever seen ... We’re gonna kill him ... He’s on fire.”
Please, oh, please import this to the States and let them try it on me.
Please, oh, please...
Sick. Just sick.
Wait a minute. I thought that once all of the evil guns were confiscated in the UK, it would become a Socialist utopia?
Geez, there's another thread about "happy slapping" an 81 year old woman too.
4 of my kids are nearing black belt status in tae kwon do. I'd really hate to see someone try that crap on them.
On the other hand, it might be fun to watch them beat the $hit out of some bullies.
Please, please bring me the "Happy Slap" game!
Coming to America soon?
Most kids with cell phones are spoiled brats.
I'm friends with a couple of guys named Smith and Wesson.
Victims have no rights in the UK. If you fight back, you will get thrown in jail.
Oh, and there is also something in Britain called 'Kicked in the Nuts' where some clown goes and kicks strangers in their you know what. Obviously the victim is irate, but always seems to cheer up and start laughing once they see the video cameras and know they are on the show. Well, if some stranger kicked me in the gonads he better be a bloody fast runner because when i catch up with him he'll be singing soprano ....no, Castrati ....for the rest of his life! The presence of video cameras and some dumb show doesn't mean people can go around kicking others in their privates.
Someone ever try this on my daughter and I'd happy slap them into the hospital.
It'll go over really well in the 39(?) "shall-issue" concealed carry States. A few ventilated "happy-slappers" will curb the enthusiasm of the rest.
Last month, these thugs attacked a bald woman who was undergoing chemotherapy in England. The knocked her to the ground and beat her, filming the deed on their bloody cell phones--including her cries of pain and anguish.
I'm hoping to win my First Level black in Isshinryu at the end of the year. Please oh please, I'm really an disarmed English victim, really really...
First they took their GUNS....now they've taken their LOGIC!!!!!!!!!!!!.......sheesh. Here is Lord of the Flies in reality!
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